For those keeping score at home, "a year later" is this year:
The U.S. troops said there was little they could do to prevent looting of the ammunition site, 30 miles south of Baghdad.Soldiers Describe Looting of Explosives [LAT]"We were running from one side of the compound to the other side, trying to kick people out," said one senior noncommissioned officer who was at the site in late April 2003.
"On our last day there, there were at least 100 vehicles waiting at the site for us to leave" so looters could come in and take munitions.
"It was complete chaos. It was looting like L.A. during the Rodney King riots," another officer said.
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Despite the stockpiles at the site, no U.S. forces were specifically assigned to guard Al Qaqaa ó known to U.S. forces in Iraq as Objective Elm ó after the 101st Airborne left the facility.
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"There was no plan to prevent these weapons from being used against us a year later."
